California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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WILLIAM C. HENDRICKSON. Though born and reared in New York
City, and with wealthy and influential connections there, Mr. Hendrickson has found his most 
congenial occupation in Southern California and has long been identified with orange growing 
and ranch management in the Ojai Valley near Nordhoff in Ventura County. His grandfather, 
Thomas R. McNeil, is a well known New York City capitalist, for many years has spent his 
winters at Nordhoff, and has made extensive investments in that locality.
In 1892 William C. Hendrickson came to Nordhoff to take the management of his grandfather's 
160 acre ranch. Sixty acres of this tract have been developed in navel and Valencia oranges, 
and it is one of the largest individual orange groves in the county. In 1894 Mr. Hendrickson 
returned to New York City and in 1896 came again to California, and managed a forty acre 
vineyard at Fresno owned by his grandfather, but in 1898 returned to Nordhoff and has since 
been in full control as manager of the McNeil ranch of 160 acres.
Mr. Hendrickson is a stockholder in the Ventura County Game Preserve, is secretary of the Jack 
Boyd Club, is vice president of the Ojai Orange Association, and is secretary of the San Antonio 
Water Company. He is one of the most influential men in that part of Ventura County.
Politically he is a republican and is a member of the Episcopal Church. In 1908 he married 
Marion L. Came of Ventura County.